"Since then," says Loftus, "I and many others have planted bizarre memories of accidents: animal attacks, nearly drowning, witnessing demonic possession.
We were witnessing things that were incomprehensible to us as teenagers.
I count myself among their number, but feel I'm not alone in my dismay in witnessing the disgraceful behaviour of the current officials of the remnants of this great union in their efforts to humiliate Arthur Scargill.
Deborah Hermanns, from the National Campaign Against Fees and Cuts, says: "We are witnessing the creation of a two-tier education system, sucking money out of parts of the system which working class students rely on, and putting it into where money can be made.
Whether we are witnessing an actual global decline or massive changes in planktonic distribution will require more study.
Though communal living has its downsides – Linda Grant writes about the pretentious political dogma and macrobiotic obsessions of a hippy commune in her novel We Had It So Good, while what went on in RD Laing's living experiments was altogether more disturbing – I'm convinced that witnessing how resources, material and intellectual, could be pooled at such a young age has shaped me as an adult.
Unless their top scorer Patrick Bamford – injured in last month's 1-0 win at Carrow Road – is fully recovered the chances of all those fans witnessing wild feats of goalscoring will diminish further.
Lit by candlelight, surrounded by incense and sung in Gregorian chant, it was like witnessing living history.
Imagine witnessing a game of bridge being played in the Cabinet War Rooms in the year 2072 AD.
If he loves you, then he will be very distressed by witnessing the pain you're in because of your bulimia and depression.
He reflected on 20-hour work days, last-minute appeals, frantic searches for new evidence and, in unsuccessful cases, the difficulty of witnessing final moments his clients spent with their loved ones.
